[Breitbart] The Denver Police Department (DPD) now believe members of a “South American theft gang” are responsible for a jewelry store heist that netted more than $12 million in stolen gems and other items
The DPD issued a warrant for an illegal migrant from Chile whom they say is part of a theft ring that has been hitting jewelry stores across the country, CBS News reported Wednesday.
Police say the theft, which occurred at a store in Hyde Park on July 22, was perpetrated by 33-year-old Gustavo Salas Ortega. They also say that Ortega has a criminal record for theft in his home country of Chile.
Ortega allegedly made off with $12,289,731.76 in watches, jewelry, and other items during the robbery.
Police also say the gang that hit the store at about 8 p.m. on July 21 came equipped with blowtorches, drills, saws, and other tools. Prosecutors also say the robbery crew spent as much as eight hours inside the store and left at about 3:30 a.m. the next morning.
The gang had reportedly broken into the jewelry store by knocking a hole through the wall of an adjoining store.
The DPD revealed that store security footage shows the suspect looking around the store on the day before the robbery. They also say his phone had Google searches for jewelry stores in Denver, and his iCloud account featured photos of some of the items stolen from the store.
This is far from the first time police have pinned high-dollar crimes on migrants from Chile. Chilean nationals have also been implicated in a string of home invasions of the homes of pro athletes and last week seven were charged in connection with those crimes.
The crimes have also sparked alarm in Congress. Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy has warned of the growth of “burglary tourism” as law enforcement tracks gangs of South Americans who fly into the country to commit home invasions, and he wants to remove the country of Chile from the State Department’s approved Visa Waiver Program (VWP).
“American communities have experienced an outbreak of ‘burglary tourism,’ in which Chilean organized crime rings have been able to exploit the VWP loopholes by entering the U.S. without a visa or any proper criminal background check.,” Roy noted late last month.
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Police say the theft, which occurred at a store in Hyde Park on July 22, was perpetrated by 33-year-old Gustavo Salas Ortega. They also say that Ortega has a criminal record for theft in his home country of Chile.
A 10 month investigation would be a good indication.
This is a strong 'defund the police' region. The few remaining have shifted their focus from property to personal injury crimes.
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Should have confined their activities to the wealthy deep blue neighborhoods so the 'progressive' judge could dismiss charges under approved redistribution of wealth meme.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Immigration enforcement officers have been directed to track down and deport migrant children who arrived in the United States without their parents.
This will answer the question of proportions: how many are adults who lied about their age, how many are mid-to-late teens who came here to work like adults, and how many were trafficked, either as indentured workers or as prostitutes? Also, who hired them, and especially who was involved in trafficking of either kind? Alongside the promised revelation of Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, this exercise will prove very clarifying.
It comes amid heightened pressures to reach President Trump's lofty deportation targets as part of his election commitment to solve America's immigration crisis.
According to an internal memo seen by Reuters, agents at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will now direct their focus to unaccompanied minors.
The memo cited a 'planning phase' to begin on January 27, followed by three more phases of implementation, to begin at an unspecified date.
Trump signed an executive order upon returning to the White House rolling back certain protections for migrants which forbade ICE officers from arresting them at certain locations - including schools.
More than 600,000 immigrant children have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without a parent or legal guardian since 2019, according to government data.
The memo is headlined the 'Unaccompanied Alien Children Joint Initiative Field Implementation.'
Authorities, as part of the instructions, are to ensure children are not victims of human trafficking or being exploited before deporting them.
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EXC - The wife of the Judge who just blocked President Trump's ICE raids appears to be the former Vice President of National Immigration Forum, a pro-open borders advocacy group.
She was also a Biden administration appointee.
Meet the far-left Jacinta Ma.
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The National Immigration Forum advocates for MASS AMNESTY and staunchly opposes border enforcement policies.
George Soros's Open Society Foundation is also reportedly the group's largest donor.
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Speaking of enforcement actions, it appears that the microscope has focused on Colony Ridge near Houston:
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In the past, down here in the south.
This type of POS would have been driven to a local gator filled swamp and dumped. OR found with 14 "self-inflicted"☺ ventilation holes.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Dramatic video showed the moment two fighter jets escorted and American Airlines flight that took off from JFK Airport in New York City to New Delhi, India after a bomb threat was received.
American Airlines Flight 292 was flying near Turkmenistan when it made a U-turn and was grounded in Rome due to a 'possible security issue,' the airline said.
The airline - which is still reeling from its catastrophic collision with a Black Hawk helicopter that killed everyone onboard a commercial flight in Washington DC last month - confirmed the ordeal on Sunday.
The jet departed around 8.30pm Saturday and was over the Caspian Sea when the airline warned the crew of a bomb threat, sources said. It was eventually grounded in Rome, Italy, at 11.15am EST.
The plane was grounded because of a bomb threat that was received by email, ABC News reported. The concern was later determined to be 'non-credible,' the airline said.
Exclusive Footage: @DalsanTv has obtained footage of the aftermath of Thursday’s clashes in Eel Ali Ahmed, Middle Shabelle. The battle between Al-Shabaab & the Somali army, alongside clan militias, left houses destroyed, including a mosque. The militants were ultimately defeated. pic.twitter.com/r72SlMhes7
#Kenya is once again at the centre of Sudan's deepening power struggle, as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti), announced a parallel government from Nairobi. pic.twitter.com/nld2pLjwqy
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army retook control of the city of al-Qutayna in White Nile state on Sunday after heavy fighting with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a military official said.
The RSF seized the city, located north of White Nile state and south of Khartoum, in November 2023. A major road runs through al-Qutayna, leading to the RSF-controlled Jebel al-Awliya area and dam. The dam's bridge has become the only supply route connecting Omdurman to Khartoum.
''The city of al-Qutayna is completely free after the defeat of the enemy,'' Major Mohammed Qalaa, a field commander in the Western Al Jazirah Mobile Unit, said in a video circulated on pro-army platforms. Sudan Tribune could not independently verify the video.
Pro-army platforms broadcast footage showing the deployment of armed forces and General Intelligence Service personnel in the city, with many neighbourhoods appearing deserted.
In recent weeks, the RSF had intensified attacks on civilians in al-Qutayna and surrounding villages, carrying out widespread abuses, including killings, looting, and forced displacement, according to local reports.
The Sudanese Foreign Ministry said that RSF attacks on villages in northern White Nile state had left more than 400 people dead, including women and kiddies, with dozens more missing. Rooters could not independently confirm the corpse count.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army said on Sunday it had broken a nearly two-year siege imposed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on El Obeid, capital of North Kordofan state, linking its forces advancing from White Nile state with those already stationed inside the city.
In recent weeks, the army's ''Al-Sayyad'' mobile force, largely composed of soldiers from the 16th Infantry Division based in Nyala, South Darfur, seized Um Rawaba and al-Rahd, then advanced through the al-Ghar and Kordofan Mountains to El Obeid, the 5th Infantry Division's headquarters.
''Thanks to God, our forces on the al-Sayyad axis succeeded in opening the road to El Obeid and joining forces with the 'Lions of the Camel Corps,''' Brigadier Nabil Abdallah, the Sudanese army spokesperson, said in a statement, officially declaring the end of the 22-month siege.
Army soldiers released video footage of the moment troops from White Nile state met with those inside El Obeid. The 5th Division commander welcomed the arriving soldiers at the city's entrance.
El Obeid, Um Rawaba, and al-Rahd residents celebrated the siege's end.
The RSF siege caused a humanitarian crisis in El Obeid, with severe shortages of essential goods due to restrictions on aid and commercial convoys.
#BREAKING: Puntland forces have reached Curaar, marking the first time they have seized one of the most significant strongholds previously held by ISIS terrorists.
It was their largest ISIS defense position, aside from the previously liberated Dhasan to Mirale in Calmiskaad… pic.twitter.com/IoO9CsS3Hb
…to Mirale in Calmiskaad mountains. Puntland forces discovered vehicles used by the militants that were destroyed in airstrikes, and motorcycles they used, and the bodies of the terrorist group are scattered across the site, officials say. #Somalia
Two Catholic Church priests were on Saturday kidnapped in Adamawa State, SaharaReporters has learnt.
The two holy mans identified as Rev. Fathers Matthew David Dusami and Abraham Samman were reportedly kidnapped at a convent in Gweda Mallam in the Numan Local Government Area of the state.
The clergymen are said to be serving in Adamawa and Taraba diocese of the Catholic Church.
The Spokesperson for the Adamawa State Police Command, SP Suleiman Nguroje, confirmed the incident in a statement the command issued on Saturday.
He said, "The Adamawa State Commissioner of Police, Dankombo Morris, has condemned vehemently an unprovoked kidnapping of Reverend father Mathew David Dusami of Yola Catholic Diocese and Reverend father Abraham Samman of Jalingo Diocese, at the early hours of today, February 22nd, 2025.
"The unfortunate incident occurred at the priests' residence situated at Gweda Malam, in Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State".
He explained that the suspects armed with offensive weapons stormed their victims' house around 4am and whisked them away.
"The Commissioner of Police, CP Dankombo Morris, in concerted effort to rescue the victims, deployed the command's operational and manpower assets to give a hot chase to the kidnappers, rescue the victims unhurt, apprehend the perpetrators and their collaborators in any.
"The progressive efforts of the command will definitely bring the perpetrators and other persons involved to face the full wrath of the law, emphasizing the command's commitment to safeguarding lives and resisting all forms of violence crimes in the state .
"This unprovoked kidnapping of religious leaders is totally unacceptable as they are not only stakeholders but also people who are actively working to promote peace in the society". SP Nguroje said.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Ireland has exploded into a wave of violence with anti-migrant anger at an all time high - after the number of people applying to come into the country rocketed by nearly 300 per cent in five years.
Shocking new videos show Dublin descending into chaos - with fighting thugs throwing themselves into busses, knife fights on their streets and mass brawls sparking in residential roads.
In others, men patrol the capital to keep the city 'safe' while police can be seen using riot shields and pepper spray as they crack down on protests.
As many as 150,000 people moved to Ireland in 2023-24, Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures revealed, the highest number in 17 years - with many of them accommodated in poor areas of central Dublin or small provincial towns. Only 30,000 of these were returning Irish citizens.
There are now nearly 33,000 international protection applicants being housed across the nation, up from 7,244 in 2017. Alongside arrivals from Africa and the Middle East, 100,000 refugees flocked to the country following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Each costs the nation nearly £70 a day, a figure that has increased by a third in two years. At the end of last year the Irish Refugee Council revealed there were a record 3,001 asylum seekers homeless in Ireland.
The budget for housing Ukranian refugees has been slashed from £910million in 2023 to less than £340million this year, with officials saying the reduction is expected to continue.
Once sleepy towns are now homes to hundreds of asylum seekers while tent cities have been set up along Dublin's Grand Canal.
And with far-right sentiment at fever pitch the country is on a knife edge - with even Ireland's left-wing politicians admitting that the influx of migrants was driving a spike in homelessness.
Aoife Gallagher, from the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, who monitors far right activity, has previously said that there has been an escalation in migrants being targeted in Ireland.
'We see consistently, a couple of times every week, horrific attacks on migrants,' she told the BBC.
'We see people standing outside IPAS centres waiting for asylum seekers in order to confront them and intimidate them.
'There's a level of political violence that we haven't seen before.'
*shrug* The Irish political class decided they needn’t pay any attention to the needs of the common voter, catering instead to the replacement class they’ve been importing for years from the Middle East and now Ukraine. The native Irish working class, whose protests have been not only ignored but mocked, has predictably gone kinetic.
Last year this was dramatically brought into focus as anti-immigration protesters sparked chaos across Dublin, throwing petrol bombs, torching cars and setting fire to a paint factory that was due to host 550 asylum seekers.
Gardai clashed with hundreds of people gathered at the former Crown Paints factory in Coolock as fighting exploded throughout the day. A number of fires were started at the site after anti-immigration protesters set up a makeshift camp, with dramatic photos showing a digger in flames.
The police force charged 15 people in relation to the public order incidents at the north Dublin site.
The November before right wing figures including MMA star Conor McGregor had ramped up fury on social media before people took to the streets over online misinformation and unsubstantiated rumours that a Algerian migrant had stabbed three children outside a kindergarten. The fighter posted: 'Ireland is at war'.
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A nation that produced the Ribbonmen, the Molly McGuires and the IRA should have no trouble adjusting the behavior of newly arrived immigrants. But being the Irish,
[IsraelTimes] Several dozen anti-Israel protesters hold a funeral for Hezbollah terror leader Hassan Nasrallah in New York City.
The protest takes place in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park on the same day as Nasrallah’s funeral in Lebanon.
The protesters chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine is almost free,” “Settlers settlers go back home, Palestine is ours alone,” and “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada.”
Several people in the crowd hold photos of Nasrallah and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. A Hezbollah flag hangs at the head of the group.
Several dozen pro-Israel counterprotesters blow air horns, wave Israeli and American flags and chant, “USA.” Police separate the two groups.
“Fuck Palestine,” a passerby shouts.
Unlike most anti-Israel rallies in the city, there appear to be more pro-Israel counterprotesters.
A vigil for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, Hezbollah’s former executive council head, was scheduled to be held in New York City on Sunday, mirroring the terrorist group’s funeral ceremony in Beirut earlier in the day.
The Bronx Anti-War Coalition
…the usual communist Black Bloc protest group doing the bidding of Iran because they hate Jews as a matter of principle …
called on supporters' to bring flags, flowers, and candles to Washington Square Park to pay tribute to Nasrallah and Safieddine, “who both ascended to martyrdom” when killed in separate Israeli airstrikes last year.
“Let us demonstrate to the world in the heart of the empire that the path of Resistance is immortal,” the group said Saturday on Instagram.
The revolutionary group shared calls from Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to participate in the funeral service in Beirut.
Betar US, a Revisionist Zionist movement, on Saturday said it would film the event and provide footage to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A brilliant idea! No point in giving it to the NYPD, who wouldn’t be permitted to act on it anyway.
It urged US citizens to protest at the event and bring Israeli and American flags.
“Nasrallah killed hundreds of Americans and Jews,” Betar US said on X/Twitter. “This is a terrorist event.”
ALLEGATIONS OF 'ZIONIST' PLOT TO ATTACK Within Our Lifetime
…Palestinian anti-Israel group, also working for the Mad Mullahs of Iran, among others…
leader Nerdeen Kiswnani said Zionist groups were planning to attack the event.
“Regardless of where you ideologically lie, they shouldn’t be emboldened enough to crash every pro-resistance pro-Palestine event and action in NYC,” he wrote on X.
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I like the idea of holding a funeral event for Nasrallah. We can have balloons and champagne and strippers and tequila and little snack cakes that look like pagers. Aloha Snackbar!
As for the American Communist Party dudes, it is hard to see how anyone with a brain could be a communist in this day and age. Did you sleep thru the last hundred years of history?
[IsraelTimes] Captive’s mother to Netanyahu: ‘Free all hostages, in one batch, now’; father of hostage who returned earlier in day says no one should be allowed to prevent freedom for others
The photos at the link show only a few hundred people gathered there, to none of whom it occurred that Hamas is the party they should address to get the hostages released.
Families of hostages held by terror groups in the Gaza Strip on Saturday urged the government to secure the freedom of all remaining captives as the last living hostages scheduled for release in the first stage of a troubled ceasefire deal with Hamas were set free.
At the weekly hostage support rally in Tel Aviv, the focal event for demonstrations on behalf of the captives, hostage mother Einav Zangauker called on leaders to negotiate the release of all the captives in one tranche, while the father of a captive who returned to Israel earlier the same day added his voice to the urgency of freeing those still languishing in Gaza.
Relatives of hostages panned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of being less concerned about the fate of the hostages than the Trump administration, and of putting the captives below his own political needs.
Though highlighting the joy in Israel at the day’s releases she told the Tel Aviv protest: “It must not be that the deal is stopped and that we return to fighting.”
Zangauker, whose son Matan is a hostage, noted that 63 hostages are still “in hell in Gaza.”
A block away, on Begin Road, hundreds of anti-government, pro-hostage deal protesters rallied in front of IDF headquarters.
The single photo of this crowd looks more like a few dozen, to me.
Yehuda Cohen, whose soldier son Nimrod is slated for release only in the deal’s second phase, accused Netanyahu of consistently working to thwart any hostage deal since October 7, 2023, out of political expediency.
Of course he said that. He is uninterested in how this public divisiveness heartens Hamas and strengthens their refusal to quit.
Cohen thanked Trump and his envoy Witkoff for locking in the Gaza hostage deal. Witkoff was actively involved in negotiations even before Trump was sworn into office on January 20.
The fate of the ceasefire process was cast into further doubt later Saturday when Israel said it won’t release hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners who were supposed to be exchanged for the six hostages, citing the “humiliating ceremonies” staged by Hamas when hostages are handed over. Netanyahu said Israel would demand an end to the gauche fanfare that Hamas has put on as it hands hostages to the Red Cross, before resuming freeing prisoners.
Hamas has said it won’t release the remaining captives without a lasting ceasefire and full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Which makes it no less a hudna than a temporary ceasefire, or than what they had on 10/6/2023. Except that the world would fuss if Israel broke the terms while ignoring Hamas perfidy.
Netanyahu, with the backing of Trump’s administration, says he’s committed to destroying the terror group’s military and governing capacities and returning all hostages, goals widely seen as mutually exclusive.
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 63 hostages, including 62 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 36 confirmed dead by the IDF.
[IsraelTimes] Defense minister says he instructed army to stay ‘for coming year’ in West Bank refugee camps and not allow 40,000 displaced Palestinians home
Israeli tanks deployed to the West Bank on Sunday morning for the first time in over 20 years, as the Israel Defense Forces said it was expanding an ongoing counter-terrorism operation in the north of the territory.
Defense Minister Israel Katz, meanwhile, said he had instructed the IDF to stay for at least the next year in West Bank refugee camps that have been cleared of terror operatives and civilians, and not allow some 40,000 displaced Paleostinians to return.
Paleostinian media outlets published images showing three Merkava tanks near the West Bank city of Jenin.
The IDF confirmed the reports a short while later, saying that a platoon from the 188th Armored Brigade was preparing to operate in Jenin "as part of the offensive effort." An Armored Corps platoon normally consists of two or three tanks.
It marked the first time since the 2002 Operation Defensive Shield that IDF tanks were operating in the West Bank.
The military said the tank deployment came as it expanded its ongoing major offensive in the northern West Bank, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, which was launched on January 21.
As part of the expanded activity, troops of the Nahal Infantry Brigade and the Duvdevan Commando Unit began operations in several villages near Jenin, the military said.
The deployment of tanks and expanded operations come after three empty buses went kaboom! in quick succession in parking lots in the Tel Aviv suburbs of Bat Yam and Holon on Thursday night and the discovery of two more unwent kaboom! devices on additional buses in Holon. No casualties were reported as a result of the earth-shattering kabooms. According to officials, the botched attack originated from the West Bank.
In a written statement Sunday, Katz said: "40,000 Paleostinians have so far evacuated from the Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, and are now empty of residents. UNRWA activity in the camps has also been stopped."
He said the IDF was clearing "nests of terror" and destroying infrastructure and weapons "on an extensive scale."
"I instructed the IDF to prepare for a long stay in the camps that were cleared, for the coming year, and not allow residents to return and the terror to return and grow," Katz said.
"We will not return to the reality that was in the past. We will continue to clear refugee camps and other terror centers to dismantle the battalions and terror infrastructure of the extreme Islam that was built, armed, funded, and supported by the Iranian evil axis, in an attempt to establish an eastern terror front," he added.
The IDF’s crackdown on terror groups began days after a ceasefire agreement was reached in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, and following recent activity against the groups by the Ramallah-based Paleostinian Authority.
The operation began in the terror hotbed of Jenin, which has seen dozens of raids since the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel from Gaza, which sparked the ongoing war in that territory, as well as a renewed effort to combat terror groups in the West Bank. Israeli forces have since pushed into several other nearby towns, including Tulkarem.
More than 40,100 Paleostinians have left their homes since the launch of Operation Iron Wall, according to UNRWA.
Humanitarian officials say they haven’t seen such displacement in the West Bank since the Six Day War, when Israel — under threat from Jordan, Egypt, Syria and other Arab countries — captured the West Bank, along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, displacing 300,000 Paleostinians.
Troops have killed more than 70 Paleostinian terror operatives and detained some 300 amid the major ongoing counter-terrorism operation, according to the IDF.
The IDF has acknowledged mistakenly killing several civilians during the operation, including a toddler and a pregnant woman.
[IsraelTimes] Police and Shin Bet agents arrested 10 people suspected of smuggling arms from Jordan into Israel, spokespeople for the agencies say in a joint statement.
The suspects — nine Israeli citizens and one West Bank Palestinian — were arrested over the course of the past two months. Security forces confiscated 34 pistols and four long-barreled guns during the investigation.
The State Attorney’s Office indicted the suspects on a plethora of charges including arms smuggling, carrying and transporting weapons, arms possession, damage to IDF property, aiding illegal exit from the country and drug offenses.
According to the statement, the suspects organized two sophisticated arms smuggling operations across the border between Israel and Jordan during the latter half of 2024.
At the helm of the operation was 28-year-old Fawaz al-Toukhi, a resident of the Negev Bedouin town Bir Hadaj, who allegedly recruited others to the ring and paid them tens of thousands of shekels for their involvement.
Officials stress the security risk posed by arms smuggling, noting that two pistols smuggled into Israel were used in terror attacks in which two police officers were killed last October.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Hezbollah group will continue to follow the path of the movement's slain Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah. This was stated by the current head of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem.
"We will maintain trust and continue on this path, we will maintain your will. You are still with us: your path and struggle live within us. I am loyal to the legacy of Nasrallah. We will not accept being killed and occupied while we watch," he said in a televised speech broadcast at the mass funeral, as reported by The Guardian. broadcast from Qom?
Under the bed in his daughter’s room, behind the doll collection.
He added that the large number of people who came to see Nasrallah off was “unparalleled in scale in the history of Lebanon.” According to Qassem, the tens of thousands of people who came to the funeral of the former leader of the movement show that Hezbollah is still a popular political force in Lebanon, despite pressure from the United States, Israel and domestic rivals.
Earlier, at the moment when Nasrallah's funeral began, four IDF fighter jets flew over Beirut at low altitude. It is noted that the situation resembled a simulated air raid on Beirut. This happened at the moment when the coffins with the bodies of Nasrallah and the former chairman of the movement's executive council, Hashem Safi al-Din, were delivered to the stadium where the ceremony began. At that moment, tens of thousands of people were heading to the site of the ceremony.
Also on February 23, the Lebanese NNA news agency reported that Israeli aircraft struck targets in eastern and southern Lebanon at the time of Nasrallah's funeral. The raids targeted several areas on the outskirts of Budaia in the Bekaa in eastern Lebanon and Al-Baysariyeh in southern Lebanon.
As reported by Regnum, Nasrallah was killed in an IDF strike on Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut on September 27. Safi al-Din was appointed head of Hezbollah. The IDF announced his elimination on October 22. Sheikh Qassem was elected as the movement's new leader.
[IsraelTimes] Speaking at an IDF cadets graduation ceremony, Defense Minister Israel Katz reveals the military has constructed at least nine posts inside Syria.
“[The IDF] built two proper posts atop the summit of Mount Hermon and seven posts in the buffer zone to ensure defense and offense against any challenge,” he says.
He adds the IDF will remain in the posts “indefinitely.”
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out strikes against additional Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon a short while ago.
The targets included several buildings used by Hezbollah to store weapons, where activity by operatives was identified, the military says.
The military says Hezbollah’s activity at the sites is a “violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
The IDF has carried out several strikes in Lebanon today, in addition to sending fighter jets to fly over the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
[IsraelTimes] In address to packed Beirut stadium from hidden location, terror leader’s successor vows to uphold his legacy, threatens Israel and US, as IDF hits Hezbollah targets across Lebanon
Tens of thousands of black-clad mourners vowed support for the Hezbollah terror group Sunday at the Beirut funeral of slain leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , after the group was dealt major blows in its last round of hostilities with Israel.
Women wailed as a truck carrying the coffins of Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine — Nasrallah’s chosen successor, killed in another Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... before his new position was ever publicly announced — slowly moved through the crowd, topped with two black turbans and draped in Hezbollah’s yellow flag.
After his death, Nasrallah was buried temporarily next to his son, Hadi, who died fighting for Hezbollah in 1997. His official funeral was delayed to allow time for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... under the terms of the US-backed ceasefire.
The September 27 killing of Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, in a massive Israeli strike, dealt a heavy blow to the Iran-backed group.
As the funeral began at the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Lebanon’s biggest sports arena, Israeli warplanes flew at a low altitude over Beirut.
The crowd then chanted: "Death to Israel, death to America, we respond to your call, Nasrallah."
Defense Minister Israel Katz said the overflight was a "clear message" to anyone who threatens Israel.
"Israeli Air Force aircraft currently flying over Beirut, over the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, convey a clear message: Whoever threatens to destroy Israel and attack Israel — it will be their end," he said in a statement.
"You will specialize in funerals, and we will specialize in victories," Katz added.
Israel also carried out several airstrikes in Lebanon on Sunday, saying they targeted Hezbollah sites containing rocket launchers and other weapons threatening Israeli civilians.
The terror group began assaulting northern Israel on October 8, 2023, a day after fellow terror group Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... ’s devastating attack on southern Israel. A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was implemented in late November after over a year of skirmishes that ended with two months of all-out war. Hezbollah’s leadership and much of its offensive capabilities were devastated in the latter period.
While the ceasefire has largely seen hostilities halted and the IDF recently withdrew from most of the territory it was holding in south Lebanon, Israeli forces remain in five strategic locations within Lebanese territory.
NAIM QASSEM VOWS TO UPHOLD NASRALLAH’S LEGACY
Nasrallah was being buried Sunday in a shrine constructed near the stadium. Safieddine is set to be buried on Monday in southern Lebanon.
In a televised address to the funeral ceremony, broadcast from an undisclosed location, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... said the terror group would keep following his "path" and rejected any control of "tyrant America" over Lebanon.
"The resistance is not over, the resistance is still present and ready" to face Israel, he said.
"We will uphold trust and walk on this path, we will uphold your will," Qassem said, referring to Nasrallah, adding: "You are still with us, your... path and struggle live within us" and "I am loyal to the legacy."
Telling his followers that Hezbollah remains "strong," Qassem said: "We will not submit and we will not accept the continuation of our killing and occupation while we watch."
He said Hezbollah considered Israel’s five positions an occupation and was relying on the Lebanese government to secure a full withdrawal through diplomacy.
"We choose to fire when we see fit and are patient when we see fit," he said.
"Know this Americans, if... you try to pressure officials and Lebanon, you will not be able to achieve your goals," he added, asserting that "officials in Lebanon know the balance of powers."
"Do not interpret our patience and wisdom in assessing priorities as weakness," he warned.
According to reports, a number of Hezbollah operatives injured in Israel’s exploding pager operation that caused severe damage to the terror group were in attendance at the funeral.
Sam Heller of the Century Foundation think tank said it was "important for the group to demonstrate that it remains a major social and political force, despite some of the setbacks it’s been dealt."
As mourners raised their fists in the air and chanted "We are at your service, Nasrallah" and "We are loyal to the promise, Nasrallah," the slain leader’s previous speeches were blasted on loudspeakers.
Men, women and kiddies walked in the biting cold to reach the site of the ceremony, which was delayed for months over security concerns.
CROWD SIZE ESTIMATES VARY
Since Saturday, roads into Beirut have been clogged with carloads of supporters traveling in from Hezbollah’s strongholds in south Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley.
AFP correspondents reported Sunday that the stadium, which organizers said could accommodate roughly 78,000 people, was fully packed. A previous AFP report put the stadium’s capacity at around 50,000, but noted that organizers had installed extra seating and overflow room.
Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... a Lebanese official who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity estimated the crowd size at 450,000.
Hezbollah’s al-Manar television said the group deployed 25,000 stewards for crowd control and 4,000 more to supervise the event.
A Lebanese security source said 4,000 troops and security personnel were also deployed to the area.
LEBANESE PRESIDENT A NO-SHOW
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun asked parliament speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... , a Hezbollah ally, to represent him at the ceremony, while Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam was represented by a minister.
Hezbollah’s weakening in the war is widely seen as having contributed to the election of Aoun, who named Salam as his premier last month after two years of leadership vacuum.
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi were in attendance, with representatives of Iraq’s main pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... factions and a delegation of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... group also expected.
A single flight from Tehran was given permission to land before dawn on Sunday, though service from Iran has been suspended over the threat of Israeli strikes against attempts to smuggle weapons or other goods to Hezbollah.
"It is only one flight, carrying official delegations from Tehran to participate in the funeral," airport chief Fadi al-Hassan told AFP.
Araghchi, in a speech from Beirut, described the slain leaders as "two heroes of the resistance" and vowed that "the path of resistance will continue."
Before the funeral, Aragchi and other Iranian officials met Aoun. According to a statement from Aoun’s office, he told the Iranian delegation that Lebanon was "tired of the war of others" and that it had "paid a heavy price for the Paleostinian cause."
At the meeting, Ghalibaf told Aoun that Iran is willing to help Lebanon with its reconstruction efforts following the conflict, according to a post from the Lebanese president’s official X account.
Aoun told the Iranian official that Lebanon’s leadership supports the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... reconstruction plan discussed during Friday’s Arab summit in Riyadh, which laid out a path towards a two-state solution, in opposition to Trump’s plan for the mass relocation of Gazooks outside the enclave.
ISRAEL RELEASES NEW FOOTAGE OF KILLING
Amid the funeral fanfare, Israel released new footage of the massive September 27 airstrike that killed Nasrallah and, according to Israel, more than 20 Hezbollah commanders, including Ali Karaki, the commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front.
Israeli Air Force fighter jets dropped 82 heavy bombs on the terror group’s main underground headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold known as the Dahiyeh, bringing down several buildings.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Four Israeli fighter jets flew at a very low altitude over Beirut, Lebanon, during the funeral ceremony of former Shiite Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on February 23. This was confirmed by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz.
It is noted that when the coffins containing the bodies of Nasrallah and former Chairman of the Hezbollah Executive Council Hashem Safi al-Din were delivered to the ceremony site, the planes flew over the southern districts of Beirut, simulating a raid on the city.
"The Israeli Air Force planes flying over Beirut right now, over the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, are sending a clear message to those who threaten to destroy Israel and attack Israel: this will be their end," Katz said, according to The Times of Israel.
As reported by Regnum news agency, Nasrallah was killed in an IDF attack on Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut on September 27. Safi al-Din was appointed the new leader of the group, who was then, according to Israel, liquidated on October 22. Sheikh Naim Qassem was elected the next leader.
On October 1, the IDF launched a ground operation in southern Lebanon, declaring its goal to be the destruction of Shiite Hezbollah targets. On November 27, a ceasefire agreement was signed between Israel and Lebanon. Tel Aviv also announced the withdrawal of troops from the neighboring country.
It is one of the traditional ways of showing bravery in the face of an enemy and involves intimidating him, and, it is hoped, persuading him to admit defeat, without having to kill him.
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...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
[IsraelTimes] Defense minister says he instructed army to stay ‘for coming year’ in West Bank refugee camps and not allow 40,000 displaced Palestinians home
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